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People go to the movies instead of moving.
I can't remember what my first script was.
I write out of my intellectual experience.
We do not write as we want, but as we can.
God help those who do not help themselves.
You will never make the crab walk straight.
Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.
When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
We are all prisoners of our time and place.
What I value most in my friends is loyalty.
I write to find out what I'm talking about.
I've been writing full-time since I was 23.
Happiness hates the timid. So does science.
I think the human species is very suicidal.
All women are princesses , it is our right.
Monuments are for the living, not the dead.
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
Principles without programs are platitudes.
All great art and literature is propaganda.
Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.
I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
I also found being called Sir rather silly.
Uneasy lies the head that craves the crown.
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.
I need a release from whatever I'm writing.
We use metaphors to express our own truths.
I realize that I am never going to grow up.
We die only once, and for such a long time.
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
You're not such a dog as you think you are.
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
Keep what you have; the known evil is best.
I always was and always will be optimistic.
Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
The truth is always the strongest argument.
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
I was not born to share the hate, but love.
War loves to seek its victims in the young.
Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?
For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.